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From: wendy@sunquest.UUCP (Wendy Debray)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: stipple question
Message-ID: <7411@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 21:48:16 GMT
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson
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question 1: stippled rectangle on a monochrome screen

  I'm having a problem getting a stipple to work on a monochrome screen.
I've set up a GC with a BlackPixel foreground, a stipple pattern, and
FillStyle set to FillStippled. This GC is then used to fill a rectangle. On
a color display, the rectangle is filled in gray as expected, but on a
monochrome screen the rectangle is filled in black as if the stipple
didn't work. Is there something else I need to do?


question 2: drawing text over a stippled rectangle

  Once a GC with a stipple is used to the fill the rectangle, I draw some
text over it with XDrawString, with a GC set up with all the defaults. The
text looks like someone bit off a few pixels here and there.  If draw over
the rectangle with XDrawImageString (so its draws with background color),
the text is fine. Is the stipple causing this? How I can improve the
appearance of the text?


environment:   Sun4, X11R3, R4 server, Motif 1.0.A

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Wendy Debray
wendy@sunquest.com